Qwixt, have you ever had an original thought? Bringing attention to the slight to D-Day veterans is not a conspiracy, nor googles love affair with a radical. Hence the facts I laid bare Fellow Traveler.
As our WW2 veterans are dying at an incredible pace, imo, google missed a great teaching moment for the multitude of people they reach.
Which is what this thread is for. Yet you felt compelled to pull some personal crazy vendetta against google into it. If you can't read about and honor the d-day soldiers without ranting on google, then you're not really firing on all cylinders mentally.
Settle down Qwixt. You see, this here is a discussion board containing gasp! discussions and after looking at the great photos in the link provided by Wings I thought I would search for a few of my own to post. That is when I made an observation gasp! that google seemed to neglect mentioning it. I thought it a shame until I looked at their daily timeline of what they do commemorate and discovered it more of a travesty. I still believe it is especially in light of things people call facts and quotes I personally compile to base my opinions on. You were certainly more than welcome to pass my post on by. Only that's not possible for you to do so because you are either,
a) A staunch adherent to keeping threads rigorously on topic. Only that cannot be the case because my discussion centered on the topic at hand.
b) An employee of Google who feels that I am being unfair to colleagues.
c) An ideologue of a certain persuasion that feels it necessary to defend extreme radicals when someone brings attention to their dubious character. A Safe Spacer who has gotten used to people never questioning their relative morality. Just another in a long line of sanctimonious members of a certain persuasion that thinks, wrongly I might add, that they, and only they, are the curators of what is and what is not acceptable speech and positions. Someone that gleefully self anoints themselves as a soldier of tolerance yet eschews none himself. A hypocrite.
I've been around here long enough and have read enough of your posts to eliminate 2 on the list. Strangely, I don't recall ever stomping my proverbial foot at your observations, snipings and musings in the past. If you have a vendetta against the likes of Slaak keep me out of it. They are unrelated and his incoherent ramblings would never be a hill for me to die on. Try not to conflate the two. I do know how those who prescribe to c) above like to paint with a broad brush all the while condemning the action in others. *SEE HYPOCRITE ABOVE*
Good day.
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Why do people always start attacking each other instead of attacking the arguments with their own ones? I count the seconds until this thread will be closed too...
But it's worth remembering that Omaha was only one of the five beaches assaulted during D-Day. Casualties were considerably lower elsewhere.
There were six divisions landed - two at Omaha - so it was about a third of the total.
Actually the Americans landed 5 RCT's at Omaha.(The 3 with the 1st ID and the 115th and 116th of the 29th ID. (My dad was an officer on the beach that morning from HHC of the 116th.
The 175th RCT of the 29th did not participate in the landing that morning.
That being said, "The Longest Day" does get a key scene historically wrong when it shows the demolition of the Omaha defenses. It was actually done by the sweat and blood of infantrymen, not by the explosives of engineers.
Engineers did play a role, and research probably has advanced beyond where it was in 1962. I don't think they intentionally fabricated stuff. "Saving Private Ryan" was just making things up - I'm pretty sure there were no Tigers operating in the American sector a few days after D-Day.
What "Ryan" got right was the way combat - in general - was depicted. "Day" depicted that much more unrealistically.
FYI...Dad took us to see "The Longest Day" and thought it lacked the pyrotechnics by about 99%.
All else he felt was accurate.
I felt that Ryan did show some of the horrors of WWII. The killing and being killed. The stress that the men/boys underwent.
They knew they were fighting for a right cause, weren't they both?
I did feel a bit empty went Capt. Miller died, I really thought/hoped he would survive.
While war gives us great games to play and often great films to watch, it is good that most of us never have to live through such an event in real life.
It took a lot of guts to go out and fight.
It is a shame that most veterans did not get the respect they deserved in later life.
Mat
"It is not enough to expect a man to pay for the best, you must also give him what he pays for." Alfred Dunhill
